Roles
Hire Full-Stack Developers on a Monthly Subscription
Full-stack developers on a subscription build and ship web and mobile apps end to end: frontend, backend, APIs, and the App Store or Play Store release at the end. One of ours built and shipped a mobile marketplace solo, backend to release.
When you need Full-stack developers
You need a web app and a mobile app that share the same backend and business logic, not two teams building in parallel.
Your roadmap is bigger than your current headcount, and hiring is too slow to keep up with it.
You need someone who can take an app through to an actual App Store or Google Play release, not just hand off a build.
You're maintaining an existing codebase and need steady full-stack capacity without committing to a full-time hire.
What they deliver
- Web apps built with Next.js and React
- Cross-platform mobile apps with React Native and Expo, for iOS and Android
- API design and backend work in Node.js or NestJS, with PostgreSQL or MongoDB
- App Store and Google Play submission, not just a build that runs locally
- Code that's reviewed, tested, and deployed through CI/CD, not shipped by hand
Stack and tools
What 40–160 hours looks like
40 hrs / month
Ongoing feature work and maintenance on an existing web or mobile app, including bug fixes and small releases.
80 hrs / month
Building a new feature across web and mobile at once, backed by shared API work.
160 hrs / month
Full-time product development: a new app or a major rebuild, backend to store release.
Subscription vs. hiring vs. freelancer
| Subscription | In-house hire | Freelancer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start time | 48 hours | Weeks to months to hire | Days to weeks |
| Typical cost | Hours used against a monthly plan | $120,000–$180,000/year salary alone, before benefits and recruiting | Hourly, quality and reliability vary widely |
| Platform coverage | Web and mobile from one plan | Depends on the hire's specific background | Usually one platform per freelancer |
| Code quality process | PR review, tests, CI/CD on every change | Depends entirely on what the hire sets up | Rarely included by default |
What full-stack means on a subscription
Full-stack here isn't a resume keyword — it's the ability to move a feature from a database schema to a deployed mobile app without losing context at the handoff. Habbal Jewellery's seven sales channels run on one Medusa.js backbone across web and admin; ReVogue was built solo end to end, backend through Play Store release. That's the shape of work this role is built around: fewer handoffs, more continuity.
Where this fits against the other roles
If the work is mostly ambiguous product judgment calls, look at product engineers instead. If it's getting software working inside a specific customer's hardware or systems, that's forward deployed work. Full-stack developers are the right fit when the shape of the feature is clear and the job is building it well, end to end, across whatever platforms it needs to run on.
FAQ
Questions about Full-stack developers
Do you build both the web app and the mobile app, or just one?
Both, and usually on shared backend logic so they don't drift apart. Habbal Jewellery and ReVogue are both examples of full-stack work spanning multiple platforms on one codebase.
Can you take an app all the way to the App Store or Google Play?
Yes. ReVogue was built solo, backend through to Play Store release, by one of our full-stack developers.
What's your stack?
Next.js and React for web, React Native and Expo for mobile, and Node.js or NestJS on the backend with PostgreSQL or MongoDB. We also work with GraphQL and REST depending on what the project already uses.
Can a full-stack developer join an existing codebase, or only greenfield projects?
Both. A lot of our work is ongoing maintenance and feature development on codebases we didn't start — see our codebase audit and takeover offer if you're inheriting something in rough shape.
How is this different from hiring a full-stack developer directly?
No six-figure salary commitment, no months-long hiring process, and the work ships as pull requests you review rather than disappearing into one person's local environment.